Plant Vocab
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| Chlorophyll | A green pigment responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis.
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| Dicot | A flowering plant with an embryo that bears two cotyledons. They typically have broad and stalked leaves with netlkike veins.
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| Vein | Any of the tubes forming part of the blood circulation system of the body.
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| Cuticle | A protective, waxy or hard layercovering the epidermis of a plant.
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| Root | The part of a plant that attaches it to the ground or to support conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant.
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| Pollen | A fine, yellow powdery substance consisting of microscopic grains discharged from the male part of the flower or from the male cone. Contains a gamete that can pollinate the female part of the flower.
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| Xylem | Tha vascular tissue in plants that conducts water and dissolved nutrients upward from the root and also helps to form the wood like element in the stem.
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| Monocot | A flowering plant that contains one cotlyedon. Typically have elongated stalkess leaves with parallel veins.
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| Pollination | The transfer of pollem to the stigma to allow plant fertilization.
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| Chloroplast | A plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis occurs.
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| Germination | The development of a plant from a seed or spore after a period of dormancy.
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| Seed Coat | The protective outer coat of a seed.
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| Seed | The flowering plant's unit of reproduction that is capable of growing into a new plant.
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| Confiners | A tree that bears cones and evergreen needlelike or scalelike leaves. Conifers are important to the source of softwood.
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| Leaf | A flatened structure of higher plant, typically green and bladelike, that is attached to a stem directly.
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| Sprout | To put forth or shoot.
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| Spore | A small unicellular reproductive unit capable of giving rise to new individuals with out sexual fission.
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| Phloem | The vascular tissue in plants that conducts sugars and other metabolic products downward from the leaves.
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| Taproot | A straight tapering root growering vertically down froming the center from which subsidiary rootlets spring.
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| Cotyledon | An embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants.
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| Sap | The fluid, chiefly water dissolved sugars and mineral salts, that circulates in the vascular system of the plant.
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| Stomata | The minute pores in the epidermis of the leaf or stem of the plant.
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